Flora of North America species comparison

leaves generally larger than branch leaves, 1.3– 1.8 × 0.8–1 mm;

elliptic to lingulate-spatulate, widest above middle, hyaline cells nonseptate.

green to red;

superficial cortical cells aporose Stem leaves lingulate-triangular, 1.2–1.6(–1.8) mm, apex ± involute;

border entire and broadened to about 0.25 the width of the base;

hyaline cells S-shaped, 0–1-septate, usually fibrillose in distal portion of leaf.

long-cylindrical, branch leaves terete to sometimes distinctly squarrose in shade forms.

not 5-ranked, terete.

1–1.4 mm, ovate to ovate-lanceolate, gradually narrowed to an involute tip, hyaline cells somewhat bulging on concave surface and nearly plane on convex surface, with 4–8 large, elliptic, unringed pores per cell on convex surface and 1–4 irregularly rounded pores per cell on concave surface, internal commissural walls smooth to rather strongly papillose, chlorophyllous cells ovate-triangular with the widest part at or close to the convex surface.

ovate-lanceolate, 1–1.4 mm, imbricate to moderately spreading, concave, straight, strongly involute near apex;

hyaline cells on convex surface with elliptic pores along commissures, concave surface with large round pores away from commissures in proximal portions of leaf.

dioicous.

dioicous.

21–26 µm;

proximal and distal surfaces smooth, papillae indistinct;

proximal laesura 0.5–0.6 spore radius.

20–28 µm; finely papillose on both surfaces, with distinct raised Y-shaped sculpture on distal surface;

proximal laesura 0.5 spore radius or more.

fascicles typically with 3 spreading (sometimes 2) and 2 pendent branches.;

branch stems with single layer of cortical cells.

fascicles with 2 spreading and 1–2 pendent branches.